Drachm

Ainos — a Thracian coastal city at the mouth of the Hebros River — occupied a commercially strategic position that made it prosperous enough to sustain a sophisticated civic coinage well into the fourth century. The city fell under Macedonian pressure during Philip II's campaigns to consolidate Thrace, and the terminal date of this type likely reflects that political absorption rather than any internal monetary failure. May's corpus remains the definitive reference, and #449 represents one of the later emissions in a series that had run continuously for well over a century.